On 19-Jun-98 mshar@vax.ipm.ac.ir wrote:
>
> Thomas Heide Clausen <voop@cs.auc.dk> wrote:
>
>>Hello all.
>
> Hi,
>
>>As this discussion has turned into a discussion about which
>>paradigm is better/worse and how to implement them, I would
>>like
>>to point Your attention to a strictly userspace solution (even
>>writen in Java) called the "Actor Foundry". A (free)
>>distributed
>>active object system, based on the "Actor" model.
>>
>>It - and information about it - is available from:
>>
>> http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/foundry
>
> Such systems are great for developing new applications.
> Object Oriented
> programming is learned by nearly all programming students, so
> they are
> familiar with the techniques. What is needed in this realm is
> a transparent
> Remote Method Invocation mechanism, and preferably, object
> migration with
> dynamic load balancing (I am already hearing protests :-)
Funny you should mention it - that's something we are working on
related to the Actor Foundry. Transparent "remote method
invocation" IS in fact allready present....as is migration.......
:-)
The mechanisms for dynamic load balancing thus are in place
(I implemented a simple prototypic heuristics for load
balancing in the Actor Foundry a while back).
- --thomas
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